🚨This video is disturbing… and everyone needs to watch what is happening. ICE agents are using tactics that are putting people in impossible situations.
And if we don’t stop this escalation, more people are going to die.
Kansas enacted the HALO Act, which makes it a crime for people to knowingly get within 25 feet of law enforcement officers performing certain duties.
That may sound reasonable on paper.
Until you see how ICE agents are weaponizing it.
In this video, a public observer drove into an apartment complex parking lot. Once she was inside, ICE agents boxed her in with vehicles, and then began demanding that she move because she was supposedly within 25 feet of them.
She tells them she is stuck. She explains she cannot move.
The agent ignores her.
He tells her to back up… but she tells him there is a vehicle behind her, and she cannot.
She is trapped in a situation ICE created.
Her options?
Attempt to drive through agents and their unmarked vehicles… and risk them claiming she used her vehicle as a weapon.
Or stay where she is… and risk being arrested.
This is how people get hurt.
Law enforcement is supposed to de-escalate situations… not create impossible choices where a U.S. citizen has to choose between an action that could get them arrested… or killed.
And everyone needs to be paying attention to this.
Because when government agents are given more power, fewer limits, and more ways to justify escalation, this doesn’t just end with immigrants.
It creates a government where anyone can be trapped in an impossible situation… and where your rights only exist if the people with power decide to honor them.
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He had a Social Security Number. He had a valid work permit. He was an authorized, 26-year-old asylum seeker trying to navigate the system, and what did it get him? A bullet through the head. The utter, cold disregard for human life is staggering. They didn't render aid.
An ICE agent in Maine fatally shot a 26-year-old man in his car on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security said, marking the second time in a week that ICE officers have used deadly force in the U.S. Lawmakers say the victim, a Colombian national, was not the target of a warrant. https://t.co/nsWeLWkqZA